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2014 Mar 18
5
[RFC] A case for freezing CRAN
...otting medal counts from the Sochi Olympics
generated different results for users on OSX than it did on
Linux/Windows. After some debugging, we narrowed it down to the XML
package. The application used the following code to scrape results
from the Sochi website:
XML::readHTMLTable("http://www.sochi2014.com/en/speed-skating", which=2, skip=1)
This code was developed and tested on mac, but results in a different
winner on windows/linux. This happens because the current version of
the XML package on CRAN is 3.98, but the latest mac binary is 3.95.
Apparently this new version of XML introduces...